1-1 By Jackson H.B. No. 1254 1-2 75R5964 JMC-D 1-3 AN ACT 1-4 relating to the validation of all acts, governmental proceedings, 1-5 officials, bonds, and obligations of navigation districts and port 1-6 authorities. 1-7 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-8 SECTION 1. DEFINITION. In this Act, "district" means a 1-9 navigation district or a port authority created under Section 52, 1-10 Article III, or Section 59, Article XVI, Texas Constitution, or 1-11 other public port authority. 1-12 SECTION 2. VALIDATION. The following are validated and 1-13 confirmed in all respects: 1-14 (1) all acts and governmental proceedings of a 1-15 district taken before the effective date of this Act; 1-16 (2) all commissioners or other officials of a 1-17 district, whether elected or appointed, who took office before the 1-18 effective date of this Act; and 1-19 (3) all bonds and other obligations of a district 1-20 authorized before the effective date of this Act, including all 1-21 proceedings taken before the effective date of this Act that are 1-22 related to those bonds or other obligations, regardless of whether 1-23 the bonds or obligations are: 1-24 (A) payable from tax revenue or otherwise; or 1-25 (B) issued on or before the effective date of 1-26 this Act. 1-27 SECTION 3. APPLICABILITY. Section 2 of this Act does not 1-28 apply to an act, proceeding, commissioner or official, bond, or 1-29 obligation the validity of which or of whom is the subject of 1-30 litigation that is pending on the effective date of this Act. 1-31 SECTION 4. EMERGENCY. The importance of this legislation 1-32 and the crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-33 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-1 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-2 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-3 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-4 passage, and it is so enacted. 2-5 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1 2-6 Amend HB 1254 by striking the existing SECTION 3 and 2-7 substituting the following: 2-8 SECTION 3. APPLICABILITY. Section 2 of this Act does not 2-9 apply to: 2-10 (1) an act, proceeding, commissioner or official, 2-11 bond, or obligation the validity of which or of whom is the subject 2-12 of litigation that is pending on the effective date of this Act; 2-13 (2) an act or proceeding relating to the conveyance by 2-14 a district of any interest in real property that had originally 2-15 been patented or otherwise conveyed to the district by the state if 2-16 such act or proceeding by the district violated any restriction or 2-17 condition of the patent or other conveyance from the state; or 2-18 (3) an act or proceeding that violated Section 61.117, 2-19 Water Code. 2-20 King